Contact

[Lala1980]

How do you facilitate contact as kids get older (they do not live locally)? With 3 DSCS all doing different activities, all having social lives and living 2 hrs away how do we make sure we maintain our relationship with them? Contact was EOW but looking to the future.

[Lala1980]

Any advice guys?

[crusoe16]

It depends on the age of the children but if they're >10 yrs or so, I guess in those circs the obvious answer is email / FaceTime / social media / telephone calls and if you can afford it, holidays when you get a solid week together every so often. I boarded in a different country to where my parents were living from the age of 12, before the age of iPads and mobiles. I saw them in the holidays but otherwise it was phone calls and letters. I sound ancient but actually I'm only 38 and it doesn't seem that long ago! I'm not suggesting it's an ideal situation but I did manage to 'maintain a relationship' with my family that way.